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August 2008 - Posts

In case Pecha Kucha was too long for you

Posted Thursday, August 14, 2008 9:25 AM by loufranco
A Pecha Kucha presentation lasts 6 minutes and 40 seconds. If you're thinking that's a minute and forty seconds too long, then check out Ignite presentations . 20 slides, 15 seconds each for a total of five minutes. Here's an Ignite presentation on buying Read More...
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EMC Moving into the Clouds

Posted Monday, August 11, 2008 10:22 AM by loufranco
Chuck Hollis (VP of Technology Alliances at EMC) has some interesting thoughts on the move to clouds . Under "What IT Vendors Should Think About": This shift in perspective forces a re-thinking in fundamental architectures, use cases and more when considering Read More...
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Imaging in the Digital Universe

Posted Friday, August 08, 2008 8:52 AM by loufranco
EMC and IDC put together this study of the digital universe .Some interesting imaging tidbits: The Financial Industry isn't imaging in comparison to the rest of their IT usage: Take financial services, an industry synonymous with number crunching. Some Read More...
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Julia Lerman Shows How to Ink on the Web

Posted Wednesday, August 06, 2008 8:18 AM by loufranco
Julia Lerman, who runs .NET Vermont and has presented at the Western MA .NET group (among other places, I'm sure), has written an article explaining how to use Ink on the web with Silverlight . I had been doing a lot of work with Ink on the Web and was Read More...
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Adobe Blog about why PDF Text Extraction is Hard

Posted Tuesday, August 05, 2008 2:12 PM by loufranco
Jim King's Inside PDF blog is a great way to keep up with what's happening with PDF (especially standardization). Last week he detailed why extracting text from a PDF is so difficult : PDF specifies text content of pages as glyphs not characters. That Read More...
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Are tech books broken?

Posted Monday, August 04, 2008 4:18 PM by loufranco
I was just flipping through a new book on a specific mainstream technology from a major publisher. The topic is interesting to me and the book looks like it's probably fine, but I'll never know, because it's over 600 pages and I don't have the time to Read More...
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Preparing a Pecha Kucha, Part III, The result

Posted Friday, August 01, 2008 8:07 AM by loufranco
This is Part III in my quest to learn about Pecha Kucha presentations for my upcoming one at the Business of Software conference . Part I: Some early tips Part II: Reading sounds like reading So here's a Pecha Kucha about the business value of AJAX based Read More...
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